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<h1>Asking for user input into a filter's definition</h1>
<p>You can allow the user who executes the report that contains the filter, 
 to decide for himself certain aspects of the filter's definition. This 
 lets each individual user define the report results he sees. To do this, 
 you include a prompt in the filter's definition. You can use prompts in 
 any filter where you want to let each user impact the results of the filter, 
 by having the user enter a specific number, date, or text that makes sense 
 for that user. To add a prompt to your filter's definition, use the following 
 high-level steps:</p>
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<li class=p><p>Decide what prompt type you need for your filter. Prompt 
 types that you can use in a filter's definition are listed in the table 
 in 
<a HREF="Creating_prompts.htm">About prompts</a>.</p></li>
	
<li class=p><p>Follow the steps in one of the prompts topics to create 
 that prompt:</p></li>
	<ul>
<li style="list-style: disc;" type=disc class=p><p>
<a HREF="Attribute_element_list_prompts.htm">Filtering 
 data on an attribute form: Attribute element list prompts</a></p></li>
		
<li style="list-style: disc;" type=disc class=p><p>
<a HREF="Hierarchy_qualification_prompt.htm">Filtering 
 data on attributes from a hierarchy: Hierarchical Qualification prompts</a></p></li>
		
<li style="list-style: disc;" type=disc class=p><p>
<a HREF="Attribute_qualification_prompts.htm">Filtering 
 data on an attribute: Attribute qualification prompts</a></p></li>
		
<li style="list-style: disc;" type=disc class=p><p>
<a HREF="Metric_qualification_prompts.htm">Filtering 
 data on a metric: Metric qualification prompts</a></p></li>
		
<li style="list-style: disc;" type=disc class=p><p>
<a HREF="Object_prompts.htm">Filtering 
 data based on metrics, attributes, or other objects: Object prompts</a></p></li>
		
<li style="list-style: disc;" type=disc class=p><p>
<a HREF="Value_prompts.htm">Filtering 
 data on a single value or string: Value prompts</a></p></li>
	</ul>
	
<li class=p><p>Then follow the steps in one of the filter topics to 
 add the prompt to your filter's definition:</p></li>
	<ul>
<li style="list-style: disc;" type=disc class=p><p>
<a HREF="att_form_qualification.htm">Filtering 
 data based on attribute forms: Attribute form qualification</a></p></li>
		
<li style="list-style: disc;" type=disc class=p><p>
<a HREF="Filtering_on_attribute_elements.htm">Filtering 
 data based on attribute elements: Attribute element list qualification</a></p></li>
		
<li style="list-style: disc;" type=disc class=p><p>
<a HREF="filter_on_dates.htm">Filtering 
 data based on dates</a></p></li>
		
<li style="list-style: disc;" type=disc class=p><p>
<a HREF="Filtering_on_metric_values.htm">Filtering 
 data based on metric values or rank: Set qualification</a></p></li>
		
<li style="list-style: disc;" type=disc class=p><p>
<a HREF="Report_as_filter.htm">Filtering 
 data based on report results: Shortcut-to-a-report qualification</a></p></li>
		
<li style="list-style: disc;" type=disc class=p><p>
<a HREF="Filtering_data_using_a_filter_object.htm">Filtering 
 data based on an existing filter: Shortcut-to-a-filter qualification</a></p></li>
	</ul>
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